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Pulse and special crop production

Q & A with Crop Production Services

By Gary Topham January 29, 2018

Q: What should I consider when planting my soybean crop? A: There are several important factors to keep in mind when growing soybeans. Consider your climatic conditions including heat units and moisture. Soybeans require a full season of cumulative heat to mature adequately. Varieties with maturities ranging from 2350 to 2500 Heat Units are well […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Get the best yield response

Q & A with CPS

By Norm Flore January 22, 2018

Q: Which crop nutrients applied generally provide the most yield response in any given year? What considerations should be made? A: Crop yield response to nutrients depends on many factors. While the most important factor is moisture availability, other factors like crop selection, soil type, organic matter, residual soil fertility, previous crop, tillage, type of […] Read more

Crops

Adding an agronomist to your farm team

By Leeann Minogue November 7, 2017

As farming gets more complicated a growing number of companies are offering to help out. Some farmers get advice from their local independent retailer, or an agronomist employed by a company like CPS. But more and more farmers are choosing to pay for agronomic advice. Based on the logo-covered trucks parked at farm shows, the […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Farming through the drought cycles

Soils and Crops: Even with modern ag technology, we’re still reliant on rain or soil moisture

By Les Henry October 31, 2017

As the combines started to roll this fall, many were very surprised at how hard the truckers had to work. While not a barn burner, the 2017 crop will go in the books for many as good, and considering the lack of rainfall some will say it is great. We all like to point out […] Read more

Columns, Marketing, Markets

Post-harvest marketing plan time

With your crop in the bin, it’s time to get to the work of grain marketing

By Brian Wittal October 2, 2017

Your location will have had a big impact to your harvest outcome this year. Weather issues stressed crops across the Prairies. Whether you had a bumper crop or a poor crop, you need to review your marketing plan. This is the critical time when prices and trends can be set for the better part of […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans, Wheat & Chaff

Get set for soybean harvest

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Doug Fotheringham September 27, 2017

Now’s the time to make sure you’re completely set for a successful soybean harvest. Generally speaking, this year’s crop will be at about the same stage in maturity as last year. The main difference is going to come from the overall plant structure. Last year’s moist, warmer conditions gave us more growth and pod height, […] Read more

Features

Farm it like you’re ‘just’ renting it?

Do farmers look after rented farmland differently than land they own? Should they?

By Angela Lovell September 18, 2017

We’ve all heard the term “drive it like a rental” but could that also apply to farmland? Is a farmer more likely to use conservation practices like no-till or variable rate technology, or apply more fertilizer and/or manure to improve the fertility on land he or she owns than on rented land? In April 2013, […] Read more

Tom King (left) from the soils science department at the University of Saskatchewan talked about plant nutrient and 4R field trials at Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Crop Diagnostic School in Indian Head in July.

Crops, Features

Growing crops in saline soil

Sometimes dividing up the field is the best solution to salinity

By Leeann Minogue September 8, 2017

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture’s Crop Diagnostic School is a great opportunity for farmers and agronomists to get outside for a hands-on, up-close look at plots, plants, insects and weeds. This summer, the School was held in Indian Head over two days in July. One of the many speakers, Gary Krueger, Saskatchewan Agriculture irrigation agrologist […] Read more

Crops

Four tips to help prevent crop diseases

By Doug Fehr, Doug Moisey, Ellis Clayton, Michael Weir August 9, 2017

Growers know which diseases exist in their fields and how to manage them, especially widespread diseases like sclerotinia, blackleg and clubroot in canola. However, changing management practices have altered the prevalence of many diseases, leading to an increase in frequency and affected areas due to over-reliance on genetics rather than good management practices. Growers should […] Read more

Crops, News, Weather

Harvest underway in south Sask., topsoil moisture worsens

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending July 31

By Saskatchewan Agriculture August 3, 2017

Harvest is underway for some producers in the south, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. Less than one per cent of the provincial crop has been combined, while slightly more than one per cent is ready to straight-cut. Forty-seven per cent of the fall rye, six per cent of the winter wheat, two per […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide under pressure from weak cash prices

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound

U.S. grains: Soybean futures ease from 17-month peak as traders gauge China buying pace

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